Pain Songs Format:Paperback

Pain Songs Format:PaperbackPain Songs, Daniel Slumans fourth poetry collection, is written through the personal experience of chronic pain, examining the ways the body and the world interact and intersect. Tender and often sensual, we encounter the internal weather systems and shifting states of the bodily self, challenging conventional ideas of wellness and illness. Reflecting on love, family, and relationships, the poems explore intimacy, fertility, pregnancy, and what the

threatens to tear apart

Vincent smokes cigarettes

departure and both voluntary and involuntary exile provoke reflections on alienation and identity

translation

unexpected friendships and a community that refuses to disappear all contribute to easing their personal pain and that of Handsworth itself

a vivid and frank account of the remarkable life of ‘a religious man with few axes to grind’

introduced by Clive Wilmer

repetition

six fictions by Christopher Meredith take the reader from the South China Sea in 1946 to a nameless place at the end of time

and different locations

Leslie McMurtry

However much we enjoy or endure it